Chemcial Engineering resources for middle school students
Resources for LEGO Education products
In March 2026, Tufts CEEO will host an in-person one-day conference in collaboration with Acera EI.
A resource for teachers to facilitate whole-class discussions about engineering design activities.
WMSI shares their experience of starting and growing a STEM education non-proit.
Based in Littleton, NH, WMSI reaches students all over the region with their fleet of mobile STEM labs. They’ve shared their journey in the slide deck below for other organizations interested in doing the same.
The PEBL Toolkit is a set of ten activities focused on creating a student-directed, hands-on playful learning experience using engineering, scientific and mathematical concepts. There are activities and facilitator guides.
Student-facing engineering activities using low-cost supplies, like craft materials and recyclables.
Custom built Smart Motor with a servo motor and wide array of sensors to quickly do robotics activity and start discussion about AI and Machine Learning.
Tufts CEEO intern team developed a set of YouTube videos for teachers and students to get started with Arduino in Rwanda and Nepal.
Facilitating Productive Conversations within a Play-Based Learning Pedagogy is a slide deck for professional development developed in collaboration with Teach for Nepal.
Student-facing placemat activities to learn how to use Sphero BOLT.
Project SYNCERE and Tufts CEEO co-designed student-facing activity cards to help students use Makey Makey to learn about circuits.
Student-facing placemat activities to learn how to use Cubelets.
Introductory activities to learn basic circuitry.
MAP MATS: Playful Adventures in math and science is a set of activities that supports play-based learning. There are twenty-five MAP MATS activities which foster play-based learning in math, engineering, and science.
The Constructopedia is a building guide for common mechanisms, like pulleys and hinges, that uses craft and recycled materials. It’s available in a PD and in Google Slides.
LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Prime based Smart Motor
The KARMA Manual is a collection of teaching and learning ideas, experiences and materials that will provide a framework to underpin development of further learning related to culturally integrated Engineering Design and Coding.
Native TEA (Technology, Engineering, Arts) lessons integrate learning about advanced technology and Navajo culture.
Wio Terminal based Smart Motor
In the “Reservoir Rescue” unit, 5h grade students explore key concepts of earth science and engineering in the context of a polluted, reservoir-feeding waterway in their local community.
Outreach activities to support the engagement with the science, engineering and ethics of cellular agriculture.
Smart Motors are trainable standalone robotics system that lower the barriers to entry into robotics as well as provide avenue for richer explorations.
In the “Safer Stopover Sites for Migratory Birds” unit students explore core ideas of physical science, life science and engineering in the context of mitigating light and sound pollution from the highway in their local community.
In the “Motion and Design of Accessible Playgrounds” unit is part of the larger unit, 3rd grade students will explore core ideas of balanced and unbalanced forces, changes in motion, and interactions between magnets.
Students engage in both science inquiry and engineering design as they gain understanding of a specific problem, working through a series of lessaon, and work toward a design challenge that where they plan and build solutions to improve a subway vehicle.
In the “Make Way for Trains” unit (MWT), students explore key concepts of geotechnical engineering in the context of a train track expansion for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
In the “Displaced Animal Rescue” unit, 3rd grade students explore core ideas about animals and their environments, particularly how changes to habitat affect the ability of animals to survive.
Website to share tools and resource created as part of a research project to help STEM outreach programs think about ways to amplify their efforts and work promote STEM.
Professional development to give educators first-had experience doing Novel Engineering. Contact elissa.milto@tufts.edu
Hands-on engineering lesson plans for K-8
Robotics Playground is an experimental library of placemat instructions for robotics activities designed to maximize solution diversity and foster student-driven learning.
Professional development to give educators first-had experience doing LEGO robotics and engineering. Contact elissa.milto@tufts.edu
Professional development to give educators first-had experience introducing robotics in K-8. Contact elissa.milto@tufts.edu
Book to explain doing engineering with K-8 students
Book to explain the Novel Engineering approach
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